{"id":219539,"date":"2020-03-07T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T17:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=219539"},"modified":"2020-03-06T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T23:02:17","slug":"dad-goes-viral-posting-video-every-day-sons-nicu-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dad-goes-viral-posting-video-every-day-sons-nicu-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad posts humorous dance videos for every day of his preemie son\u2019s NICU stay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Baby Dylan Askew spent 50 days in the NICU following his premature birth. According to ClickOrlando<\/a>, Dylan\u2019s dad, Florida firefighter Chris Askew, vowed to dance every day until his son was able to come home. Askew posted the humorous dance videos to the app TikTok using the hashtag #Dancing4Dylan, and they received hundreds of thousands of views. But what started as a humorous way to commemorate his son\u2019s time in the NICU has now become a passion for helping other families with babies in the NICU.<\/p>\n

With those TikTok views, messages began to pour in from other NICU parents around the world. Askew told Inside Edition<\/a>, \u201cThey\u2019re telling me that this is the first time they\u2019ve laughed in weeks or months.\u201d Seeing a family making the most of a difficult situation brought hope to many other families struggling as their premature babies fight for their lives.<\/p>\n